REDUCED POWER SHIFT REGISTER WITH MULTIPHASE CLOCKS ELEC 6270 Kannan Govindasamy
OUTLINE Objective Simulation Specification Background information ImplementationResultsConclusion
OBJECTIVE Design and Verify a 32 bit Shift Register with Multi-phase Clocks Study Low Voltage Power and Delay characteristics
Simulation Specification TechnologyTsmc035 Rated Voltage 5v NMOS Vth.54v PMOS Vth -.64V Temperature 27 C Degree Simulator ELDO ver
Background Information Dynamic Signal transitions Signal transitions Logic activity Glitches Short-circuit Short-circuitStatic Leakage Leakage
Shift Registers with Multiphase clocks
Multiphase Clock Generators Modified Johnson counter is used for Multiphase Clock generation
ELDO SIMULATION
Results Power Table N=1 Voltage Avg Power ObservedTheoreticalPower mW mW3.034mW uW1.24mW uW337.2uW uw270.4uW
Results Power Table N=4 Voltage Avg Power ObservedTheoreticalPower 55.08mW mW1.828mW uW812.8uW uW203.6uW uw164.5uW
Results Delay Table for N=1 VoltageDelay Observed (ns) Delay Calculated (ns)
Power vs Voltage
Delay vs Voltage Plot
Power-Delay Plot
Power Consumption vs Parallelism Degree of Parallelism Freq Power (mW) 1100MHz MHz MHz MHz MHz4.71
Summary A power reduction of 39.1% is achieved when degree of parallelism is 4. A power reduction of 45.07% is achieved for N=8. for further parallelism power reduction gets stabilized
Reference ELEC 6270 class slides by Dr.Agrawal Tsung-chu Huang, Kuen-Jong Lee, A Low-Power LFSR Architecture, Test symposium 2001